chair recommendations?

[ursula]

I need to buy a computer chair. In fact, five minutes with the OSHA website suggests that I need to buy a chair, a desk, a keyboard, a flatscreen monitor, and maybe a mouse substitute, but buying a chair and improvising a footrest seems like the place to start. (I've been using one of the heavy green dining room chairs that alaric gave us years and years ago, and my heels don't touch the ground.) Anyone want to recommend a chair? It should be comfortable for short people, and you get bonus points if it looks like it belongs in a living room rather than a cubicle.

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[tejolote.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I guess that's overkill for wrist pain! I was thinking back, or something. Then again, you're talking to someone who takes an extra vicodin to sit in a hard chair.

[ursula]

Most of the commenters here seem to be imagining back pain. I guess normal people don't start with the chair when they're dealing with repetitive stress?

Preferentially I work cross-legged with books around me in piles-- there's a reason we often fail to fold the futon up for months at a time-- but that's not so great with computers.